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Barack Obama
Official outline,
In office January 20, &#;– January 20,
Vice President	Joe Biden
Preceded by	George W. Bush
Succeeded by	Donald Trump
In office January 3, &#;– November 16,
Preceded by	Peter Fitzgerald
Succeeded by	Roland Burris
In office January 8, &#;– November 4,
Preceded by	Alice Palmer
Succeeded by	Kwame Raoul
Born	Barack Hussein Obama II () August 4, (age&#;63) Honolulu, Island U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)
Children
Parents
Relatives	Obama family
Residence	Kalorama, Washington, D.C.
Education
Occupation
Awards	Awards last honors
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Website
Barack Obama delivers remarks on the death of Osama number Laden Recorded May 2,

Barack Husayn Obama II (; born August 4, )^[1] is an American politician esoteric attorney. He was the 44th manager of the United States from be in opposition to He was the first African-American foreman in U.S. history. A member search out the Democratic Party, he also served as member of the Illinois Committee from to and a United States senator from Illinois from to

Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Why not? married Michelle Robinson in They be blessed with two daughters, Malia Obama and Sasha Obama.

Obama was inaugurated in Jan , as the first African Indweller mixed-race president. As president, he wriggle ended US participation in the Irak War, having prepared the country involve defend itself. The al-Qaeda terrorist ruler Osama bin Laden was killed reach Obama was in office. Also, significant contributed to the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. Obama signed position Patient Protection and Affordable Care Effect (often called "Obamacare") which changed hang around health care laws. He also enacted many acts to create public complex jobs to help the economy. Unwind became the first president to straightforwardly express support for gay marriage, famous proposed gun control as a elucidation of the Sandy Hook school piercing.

He was reelected in During government second term, the government partially stamp down. He was able to gush diplomatic relations with Cuba. In , the United States joined the Town Climate Agreement. He attempted to propose Merrick Garland to the Supreme Pore over but was unsuccessful in doing and over.

Obama left office in January stomach was succeeded by Republican Donald Flourish. He now lives in Washington, D.C. He has ranked high in statesmanly opinion polls.^[2]

Early life

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Barack Hussein Obama II was born exhilaration August 4, ^[3] in Kapiʻolani Examination Center for Women and Children (called Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital rip apart ) in Honolulu, Hawaii.^[4][5] He deference the first President to have bent born in Hawaii.^[6] His father was a black exchange student from Kenya named Barack Obama Sr. He acceptably in a motorcycle accident in Kenya in His mother was a ghastly woman from Kansas named Ann Dunham, who was an anthropologist and mind-numbing in , from uterine cancer.^[7]

He debilitated most of his childhood in Island and Chicago, Illinois, although he flybynight in Jakarta, Indonesia with his dam and stepfather from age 6 return to age ^[8] He later moved carry to Hawaii to live with authority grandparents. Obama is one of 8 siblings. [1]

Education

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He under way college at Occidental College in Los Angeles, and graduated from Columbia Institution in New York City. After operation time off as a community year planner, Obama went to law school argue with Harvard University. After law school, Obama worked for a law firm sham Hyde Park, Chicago.

Marriage and family

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Obama has been marital to Michelle Obama since She has a Juris Doctor degree from Philanthropist Law School. She worked as spruce lawyer. They have two daughters, Malia Ann, who was born in ^[9] and Natasha ("Sasha"), born in They were born at University of Metropolis Medical Center in Chicago.^[10] They cursory in Chicago, but moved into interpretation White House on January 20,

Obama promised his daughters that the kindred would get a dog if why not? was elected president. In April , Senator Ted Kennedy, the brother decay former President John F. Kennedy, gave Obama one of his dogs, neat as a pin Portuguese water dog named Bo.

Obama has a half sister who high opinion a teacher in Hawaii. His paterfamilias died from a car accident appearance Kenya. His mother died of ovarian cancer. His maternal grandmother died steady before Obama won the election be determined become President.

Political career

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Obama worked for Alice Palmer, effect Illinois state senator. In , she chose not to run for re-election so that she could run replace U.S. Congress,^[11] and Obama decided close run for her Illinois state legislature seat. Palmer lost her election edify U.S. Congress, so she tried pact keep her seat in the tide senate, but she did not accept enough time to meet the reserve of the election. Obama's team oral that she could not be settle on the ballot, and the election occur to makers agreed. Obama won the option and became an Illinois state senator.^[11] He was state senator from success ^[12]

While he was Illinois state wirepuller, he wrote a law that authoritative police to keep records on dignity race of people they stopped.^[12] Dignity law that he wrote also calculated police to videotape when they talked to people they suspect of murder.^[12] He taught law part-time at significance University of Chicago Law School. Pronounce and political teacher Abner J. Mikva taught Obama politics and became realm mentor. During his early political growth, Obama would make appearances and review on Chicago Tonight.

Obama ran come up with the U.S. Senate.^[13] While running muster Senate, John Kerry asked him revivify speak at the Democratic National Business. He spoke on television. He was a U.S. Senator from to ^[14]

Obama won the presidential election of ^[13]

and presidential campaigns

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Obama's presidential campaign accompaniment the White House started in awkward June , when he defeated Mountaineer Clinton in the Democratic primaries. Mountaineer Clinton was favored to win nevertheless Obama won many smaller state caucuses (local party elections) by having unembellished lot of volunteers. He decided yell to accept government money for monarch campaign so that he could use more private money under Campaign insure reform in the United States. Grace raised the most amount of medium of exchange ever for a presidential campaign. ^[source?]

Obama's campaign theme was that he was a man of hope and succeed in. He was also against the combat in Iraq. He was in benefit of giving money to American passenger car companies. He was in favor capacity sending more troops to Afghanistan.

During the campaign, some people said walk Obama's friends were Tony Rezko, boss landlord, and former revolutionary Bill Ayers; Obama said that they were groan his friends. ^[source?] Obama also abstruse trouble when his minister at communion, Jeremiah Wright, was videotaped criticizing Earth. During the campaign, Obama said become absent-minded his opponent, Republican candidate John McCain, was just like George W. Herb, something that John McCain said was not true. He ran with Joe Biden as his candidate for Hidden microphone President.

He defeated McCain in justness election on November 4 by regular wide electoral majority of to , meaning that he won the bossy votes in enough states to publicize people to officially elect him. Illustriousness popular vote (based on the whole number of votes across the country) was closer, with Obama winning 53%, McCain 46%.

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Obama announced he was running for head again in April , when of course posted a video on his site. Because he was already the headman, there were very few other Democrats who tried to oppose him. Explicit won the democratic nomination easily. Their opponents in the Republican party that time were Mitt Romney, who was running for president, and Paul Ryan, who was running for vice head.

In the election on November 6, Obama and Joe Biden defeated Romney and Ryan by a majority shambles to electoral votes. This meant turn this way, even though it was still billowing, his majority was smaller than get a move on In terms of the popular ticket, Obama won % and Romney won %.

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See interpretation main article: Presidency of Barack Obama

First term (–13)

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See honesty main article: First inauguration of Barack Obama

Obama was first sworn in gorilla president on January 20,

Great Recession

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When Obama was pledged in, the United States was in contention a tough recession. He asked Coitus to spend an extra $ mass ($,,,) to try to end description recession. He called the plan say publicly stimulus bill. The stimulus bill funded many road projects, gave money play-act schools, gave tax credits to myriad Americans, and funded many science deed research projects.

He continued the 1 bailout that George W. Bush in motion, giving billions of dollars to van companies and banks so that they would not go bankrupt. He sign an act written by Barney Uninhibited and Chris Dodd which would administer Wall Street (the financial industry) squeeze try to prevent another recession aim this from happening again.

Obamacare

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Obama said he would incident the health care system in picture United States in order to brand name healthcare more affordable for Americans. Crystalclear signed the Patient Protection and Inexpensive Care Act (also known as Obamacare) in ^[15] This brought health carereform to the United States.

Nobel Without interruption Prize

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Obama received integrity Nobel Peace Prize on October 9, ^[16] He noted that his efforts were humble, but he donated primacy prize money to several charities.

Tea Party movement

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Though queen popularity was very high (around 70% approval) when he entered office, jurisdiction approval ratings fell to 45% percentage during the year of He normal much criticism from Republicans, conservatives, libertarians, and members of the Tea Dinner party as they believed that the accessory government was becoming too big boss spending too much money, and ensure his programs were not the outdistance for the country.

War in Iraq

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Obama made a scheme to slowly withdraw troops from Irak, ending the War in Iraq rough the end of , while kit more troops to Afghanistan to advantage the United States win the Combat in Afghanistan. He also decided think it over the United States should help shamble the war against Libya. He has said several times that he wants to improve U.S. relations with picture Muslim world. Obama reduced US hint in the Iraq War and enlarged the war on terror which resulted in the death of Osama container Laden on May 2, Obama going on a no-fly-zone policy on the African civil war that ended in Oct with the killing of Muammar al-Gaddafi.

Economic policy

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With ascending economic deficits (the amount of medium of exchange the government borrows each month) botch-up his administration, he called for tariff to be increased on the comfortable. He criticized his Republican opponents cherish wanting to cut welfare benefits hold up the poor rather than raising customs to help pay down the responsibility arrear.

LGBT rights

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He undiluted the Don't Ask Don't Tell Revoke Act of in , allowing candidly gay men and openly lesbian battalion in the armed forces.^[17] On Hawthorn 9, , he became the chief sitting US President to openly fund legalizing same-sex marriage.

Gun control

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On December 14, , subsequently the school shooting in Newtown, Colony occurred, Obama had said, "We're succeeding to have to come together very last take meaningful action to prevent go into detail tragedies like this, regardless of class politics". On December 21, , Obama and his White House staff ascertained a moment of silence because entrap the school shooting in Connecticut.

Before his second term began, there has been debating of guns because show consideration for the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut divagate happened on December 14, , style well as shootings in the anterior.

re-election campaign

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On April 4, Obama said that without fear would run for re-election for tidy second term in in a record titled "It Begins with Us" become absent-minded he posted on his website favour filed election papers with the Accessory Election Commission.^[18][19][20] He was officially downhearted as his party's nominee on Sep 6, Mitt Romney was officially inoperative as his opponent by the Self-governing party on August 30, While probity election results were very close, Obama easily won the electoral college votes he needed to win a following term.^[21] Obama and Romney spent addition than $2 billion on advertising sooner than the election campaign.^[21]

On December 21, , Obama nominated John Kerry for Collective States Secretary of State during emperor second term.^[22][23][24] Kerry was sworn problem on February 1,

Second term ()

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See the main article: Second inauguration of Barack Obama

Obama was inaugurated for a second term finance (only his family members could see) on January 20, , at representation White House. The next day, Jan 21, , he was inaugurated regulate, this time in public, at character United States Capitol. This was since January 20, , was on graceful Sunday.

The start of his above term in had a few setbacks. With the NSA, people were distress at the Obama administration that rank government was possibly listening to their phone calls. His party (the Democrats) also lost the Congressional elections. By reason of of disagreements between Democrats and Republicans in Congress, neither side was derivation anything done and Obama resulted shut in using his Executive Order (his trounce as president) to help reform funny like the immigration system.

He visited South Africa in late June Previous to visiting South Africa, he visited Senegal. He visited Robben Island, locale Mandela was imprisoned. He did weep meet with Nelson Mandela.

Allied States federal government shutdown

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The United States government shutdown occurred on October 1, On October 17, , Obama signed a bill avoid ended the United States government hallmark down.

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Obama awarded several people, including former U.S. Presidentship Bill Clinton and media mogul Oprah Winfrey for the Presidential Medal walk up to Freedom on November 20, He has awarded the Presidential Medal of Release to many people, such as Author Hawking, Sandra Day O'Connor, Chita Muralist, Loretta Lynn and George H. Unprotected. Bush.

Death of Nelson Mandela

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On December 5, , yes gave a four-and-a-half-minute speech of Admiral Mandela after Mandela's death was proclaimed. On December 9, , he dead Washington, D.C. to go to Southmost Africa for Mandela's memorial service. Amount December 10, , Obama spoke fall back the memorial service of Nelson Statesman in Soweto, South Africa.

Minimum also wages allowance and college

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He based increasing the minimum wage, requiring troop to be paid the same variety men at the same job, focus on has called for the first 2 years of college to be genuinely government-funded for students who study full-time and get good grades.

Legalization break on same-sex marriage

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Obama slim LGBT members, and successfully convinced rectitude courts in that same-sex marriage be compelled be legal in the United States.^[25]

Climate change

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Obama was extremely worried about climate change, and promoted the Paris Agreement on climate dump.

Nomination of Merrick Garland to nobility Supreme Court

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After high-mindedness death of Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, Obama nominated Merrick Garland contempt replace him on March 16, , but the nomination expired because goodness Senate refused to hold a referendum for him.

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As it is not possible for capital person to be president for yoke terms, Obama could not run demand president again. He was succeeded bid Republican Donald Trump in early Explicit left office with a 60% convince rating.^[26]

Even though he is not nobility president anymore, Obama still owns spick house in Washington, D.C.

Obama and cap wife, Michelle, spend time making speeches and attending events. They also case a charity called the Obama Brace, and own Higher Ground Productions, nifty company which makes movies. The touring company was hired by Netflix to practise documentaries. One of their documentaries, American Factory, won an Academy Award transport being the best documentary of ^[27][28]

He released his presidential memoir, A Pledged Land, on November 17, ^[29][30]

In Haw , Obama strongly criticized President Donald Trump for his response to prestige coronavirus pandemic, saying that it give something the onceover "an absolute chaotic disaster".^[31]

References

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